Dear Everyone,

I'd appreciate any practical notes/recommendation/warnings on the
following combination of hardware (and operating system drivers):

We're eyeing some 10Gb Eth adapter cards to be used in MacOS X on an
Intel Mac. The two brands that seem to have drivers for the MacOS are
Intel (3rd-party driver by Small Tree) and Myricom (own driver). We're
planning to attach that to an existing Cisco Catalyst 3560-E series
switch, via the X2 modules available from cisco: either metallic CX4
or the short-range 850nm multimode fibre.

Two questions:

1) do you have any experience with Myricom 10Gb against Cisco Catalyst
switches ? (I assume Intel would work like a charm, the brand size of
Intel and Cisco and the public PR claims of love between the two
brands just make me believe so) Any specific notes regarding the Cisco
and Myricom CX4 metallic and SFP+ vs. X2 multimode optical transceiver
compatibility?

2) do you have any notes regarding Intel+SmallTree or Myricom 10Gb
Ethernet boards under MacOS on Intel Mac? Driver issues, performance,
general compatibility...

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On 23 ÄŒec, 19:03, pk...@osmium.mv.net (Patrick Klos) wrote:

hmm, the Myricom boards seem to be significantly cheaper than Intel,
let alone Intel with the Mac driver :-)

Thanks at least for the positive reference regarding the Broadcom-
based switch.
So far I haven't gathered too many relevant references, so maybe we'll
just have to take the risk :-)